Well we are on the move again . After a wonderful nights sleep and a breakfast of a type of French Toast served with compote and cheese. We had the company of our orphan friends who downed glasses 8 milk and large bread rolls before heading away to their summer school activities.
Today we are driving from Shiroka Luka courtesy of our hosts along the Panorama Road where they will drop us off and we walk back to the village.
The map reading skills were a lot easier today as we walked for two hours along the road which was on the top of a ridge and gave us some lovely views across the valleys . We started descending then and ate our lunch in a little chapel by a spring, thoughtfully providing us a seat in the sun so we could take in the view.
Our destination was to the birthplace of Orpheus in a village called Gela where Stephanie was to collect us so we had plenty of time we thought to take in the significance of this place . The music will always have a new significance.
First of all we passed through Stickel, the highest village in Bulgaria and little else of note . What a desolate place,the main street was dusty and potholes without a whole building in sight . I took a photo of the prettiest thing I could find there,a lovely old rose climbing a fence . Pleased to leave that place . We passed a man with a pitchfork turning the hay and two boys on bikes and that was Stickel.
Gela was an improvement but little to see in such a noteworthy birthplace so we were ready to catch our car back to Shiroka Luka so we could explore the village before tea,have a drink at a bar and enjoy our meal.
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